Fiction

Science fiction and fantasy

• "Sublimation Angels"
  A novella forthcoming in Interzone
  
  
• "A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story"
  forthcoming in Tales of the Unanticipated, issue 30, August 2009
  
  
• "Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas"
  forthcoming in Tales of Moreauvia
  
  
• "When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees"
  Interzone, issue 219, Dec. 2008
  (reprinted online in Apex Magazine, May 2009)
  
  • Winner of the 2008 Interzone Readers Poll.
  • Podcast on StarShipSofa, May 2009.
  • Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie.
  • Nominated for the 2008 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.
  • Selected as an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
  • Review in Locus by Rich Horton ("Recommended")
  • Review in SFRevu ("Hugo-worthy")
  • Review in Suite 101 ("One of the year's best.")
  • Selected as one of the top ten stories of 2008 by Neil Beynon.
• "Where Away You Fall"
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Dec. 2008
  
  • Selected as an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
  • Selected by Richard Horton as one of four impressive Analog short stories for 2008.
• "The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain"
  Interzone, issue 217, Aug. 2008
  (reprinted online in the literary journal Ensorcelled) 
  
  • Reprinted in Year's Best SF 14, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
  • Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie.
  • Nominated for the 2009 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.
    
  • Nominated for the 2008 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.
  • Selected as an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
  • Review by Gardner Dozois in Locus, Dec. 2008. ("Elegantly written, this story dances on the borderline between SF and surrealism, and features one of the most peculiar and intricate cosmologies you're likely to see.")
  • Review in Suite 101 ("One of the best stories of the year.")
  • Review in The Internet Review of Science Fiction ("A very strange and wonderful creation. Recommended.")
  • Review in Best SF ("As inventive a piece of world-building as you generally see in short SF.")
  • Review in SF Crowsnest ("A very enjoyable yarn.")
  • Review in SFRevu (A "poignant tale of hope.")
• "Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim"
  Menda City Review, Dec. 2007
  
  • Review in BestScienceFictionStories.com ("If you are a fan of printed science fiction you are bound to love this story!")
• "Freelanga"
  Anthology I Am This Meat, 2007
  
  • Re-released as a narrated podcast through Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.
• "Rumspringa"
  Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 5, July 2007
  
  • Selected as an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 25th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
• "For Aging Kids Who Dream of Star Treks"
  Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2002

Jeremiah (a short novel in four parts):

• Prologue: "Maps of the Bible"
  Monsters and Critics, spring 2008
• Part 1: "Cold Pelts"
  Beloit Fiction Journal, spring 2000; reprinted in Monsters and Critics summer 2007
• Part 2: "One Side, Two Weeks, One Bathroom"
  Monsters and Critics summer 2007
• Part 3: "Water Hearts"
  Monsters and Critics summer 2007

Other stories

• "Whack a Cracker Upside the Head"
  Fiction Warehouse (winner of the 2005 Fiction Warehouse Hypnologic Experiment writing contest)
• "Enucleation Means to Remove an Eye"
  Southern Gothic Online (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
• "One More Expert Speaks to Jury"
  Diagram 4.6
• "Blue Doily Dreams"
  Fiction Warehouse (feature story of the week for Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, 2004)
• "God's Words to Bucky Guisman, Airport Angel"
  Pindeldyboz, summer 2002; reprinted in 3 A.M. Magazine January 2003
• "Links"
  The Mississippi Review, winter 2000
• "Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye"
  Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2
  
• "Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye" Classroom Theater
• "Mai's Magic"
  Girls to the Rescue, Book #4